I was at his funeral. He had a coffin of walnut-tree, Sir John Denham said it was the finest coffin ever he saw. His body was carried in a Herse from the playhouse to Westminster Abbey, where at the great west door, he was received by the singing men choristers, who sang the service of the church (I am the resurrection, etc.) to his grave, which is in the south cross wing, on which, on a paving stone of marble, is written, in imitation of that on Ben Johnson :

O rare Sir William Davenant.

But me thought it had been proper that a Laurell should have been set on his coffin — which was not done.